Tom SheppardReally, #TimHortons? 800 points by spending just 15¢?!
Penguin@Tom One of our fun activities when we visited Canada in 2017 to see Banf & Jasper was Tim Horton’s. A good cup of coffee before walking on the Athabasca Glacier was mandatory 🙂
@PenguinToot I've visited Athabasca Glacier a few times since I was a kid. It's sad to see how much it's receded. But you get to people watch the ones who step past the safety ropes and try to find a hidden crevasse.
@Tom In 2017 we saw no safety ropes & there was only a wooden board to cross the fast-moving stream of melting water & step onto the glacier. Hopefully there’s a better way to reach it by now.
@PenguinToot Did you take the bus up?
@Tom No we drove & parked in a big lot nearby then walked from there to the glacier. This was the only way to get onto the glacier. My family thought I wouldn’t do it but I just breathed deeply & pretended I was walking over a wide bridge. It was worth it, we had lived 5 years in Switzerland in 1980’s where glaciers are huge & you need crampons to walk on them, this was much easier 🙂
@PenguinToot The buses that run up onto the glacier are huge with large tires. It’s worth the ride to get up there in the freezing air in mid July. The melt water flowing is crystal clear and the ice is tinged in blue. You can even see bore holes where the water starts to spiral and drills a hole through the ice.
